Weapon Collection (#25)

Buffalo and hunter on horseback, Sri Lanka
Charge in High Reeds -- a buffalo emerging from reeds confronts a hunter on horseback in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 1854

Russian troops manning a shallow trench, WW1
Russian troops manning a shallow trench during the First World War, using an interesting firing position. Date: 1914

Turkish infantryman, WW1
A Turkish infantryman during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Soviet Russian political cartoon
A Soviet Russian political cartoon containing a satirical image of the late Tsar Nicholas II (top right) and the anti-Bolshevik general Pyotr Wrangel (middle right)

American anti-aircraft action, Chemin des Dames, WW1
American anti-aircraft action at Chemin des Dames in northern France during the First World War. Date: 3 May 1918

American and French allies with rifles, France, WW1
Scene at an American army camp in France during the First World War, showing French and American soldiers discussing the handling of their respective rifles. Date: 1917-1918

French poster, V for Victory
A French wartime poster or cartoon illustrating V for Victory, showing a soldier holding his hands up on a map of Greece, with a bayoneted rifle pointing at him. Date: 20th century

Wartime poster advertising Post Office Savings Bank, encouraging people to Save for Defence during the Second World War. 1940s

American troops in action, Beauges sur Aire, France, WW1
American troops in action at Beauges sur Aire, northern France, during the First World War. They are firing rifle grenades. Date: 23 October 1918

Poster giving the cost of various weapons and equipment
Wartime poster giving the cost of various weapons and equipment, from aircraft, tanks, ships, guns and shells to barrage balloons and searchlights. 1940s

Englishman asserting his authority
Three Spaniards outnumbered by an Englishmen in combat. While they draw their swords, the Englishmen responds with his quarterstaff. Date: 17th Century

Poster, The Recruit Who Took To It Kindly. Showing an army recruit learning to use his bayonet and demolishing a row of stuffed sacks

Greek fire used by Saracens, 1248
Greek fire used by Saracens against Crusaders when crossing a branch of the Nile, 1248

A Delhi, Turkish Light Infantry
A Dehli - Turkish light cavalry. A cavalry trooper wearing a tall hat with a lance in his hand, a musket slung over his back and a curved sword at his side. He is mounted on a brown horse. 1803

Romans fight the Sabines
Marginal drawings depicting combat between the Romans and the Sabines. 1543

Officers of the 33rd, 56th and 50th Regiments of Foot in uniform, carrying swords. Above each soldier is a description of where he is positioned in the formation

Mitchell Hedges tests a sub machine gun, 1921
Archaeologist and explorer Mr. F.A Mitchell Hedges(1882-1959) demonstrates how to hold a Thompson sub machine gun, which was invented during World War One

General Gouraud with wrecked gun, Sedd el Bahr, Turkey
General Henri Gouraud (1867-1946) of the French Army Corps, standing at the side of a wrecked gun in the ruined Old Fort at Sedd el Bahr on the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey

Two British machine gunners, Battle of the Somme, WW1
Two British machine gunners near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, northern France, during the First World War. They are using a Vickers Gun and wearing their gas helmets. Date: July 1916

Greek fire on lance
An infantryman carries a flaming lance

Greek fire launcher
Machine for attaching Greek fire to fortress gates

Station on Susa North Railway, Cameroon, Africa, WW1
View of a station on the Susa North Railway, German Cameroon, west central Africa, around the time of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

General Gouraud and General Bailloud, Turkey
General Henri Gouraud (1867-1946) (right) of the French Army Corps and General Maurice Camille Bailloud (1847-1921) (left) of the French Army 2nd Division

Detraining a Howitzer by moonlight, Palestine, WW1
Men of a siege battery at a railhead, detraining a Howitzer by moonlight in Palestine during the First World War. From a drawing by James McBey, war artist. Date: 1914-1918

Gauges used to manufacture Vickers-Maxim gun
Gauges used to manufacture the Vickers-Maxim gun, a heavy machine gun which was used from the late 1880s through to the 1940s in many wars by many countries. Date: 20th century

British soldiers undergoing weapons training, WW1
British soldiers undergoing weapons training with a machine gun during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Gun-carrying British tank, WW1
A gun-carrying British tank, used during the First World War. Showing the method of carrying the wheels of a 60-pounder gun at the sides, outside the body of the machine

Testing a Maxim machine gun
Men in top hats (and one in a bowler hat) testing a Maxim machine gun. The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884

British officers training at Hythe, WW1
British officers undergoing machine gun training at the School of Musketry, Hythe, Kent, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Captured German gun at Mametz, Somme, France, WW1
Allied troops moving a captured German gun near Mametz Wood in The Somme, northern France, during the First World War. The officer at the centre is wearing a protective waistcoat. Date: 10 August 1916

Museum display of British soldiers with machine gun
A museum display of dummy British soldiers with various means of transport and a Vickers machine gun. Date: 20th century

Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song by Billy Gould
Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song with words and music by Billy Gould. Sheet music cover, with a photograph of President Woodrow Wilson at the centre, a soldier on the left and a sailor on the right

British 9. 2 inch Howitzer used on Western Front, WW1
A British 9.2 inch Howitzer used on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Basuto Gun War, 1880 - village attacked
Basutos repulsed when attacking a village during the Basuto Gun War, 1880. Date: 1880

Greek fire ship
A 13th century covered galley, equipped to drop barrels of Greek fire

Officer of the 7th Regiment of Foot
Officer of the Seventh Regiment of Foot in uniform, carrying a sword. Described as: An officer standing at ease on the left of his division, the regiment being at open column, the right in front

Canadian armourers repairing rifles, Salisbury Plain, WW1
Canadian armourers repairing Ross straight-pull rifles on Salisbury Plain at the start of the First World War. Another man in the background is repairing a bicycle. Date: 27 September 1914

Gurkha firing Lewis gun in trenches, WW1
Gurkha of the 3/3rd Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, firing a Lewis gun in the trenches during the First World War. Date: December 1917

Generals Foch and Fayolle with captured German cannon
General Ferdinand Foch and General Fayolle at Chateau de la Haie (or Haye), in the village of Carency, Northern France, inspecting cannons captured from the Germans during the First World War

Officers, Regiments of Light Dragoons
An officer of the Tenth or the Prince of Wales Regiment of Light Dragoons (left) and an officer of the Eighth or Kings Royal Irish Regiment of Light Dragoons

Siege of Gaza
The siege of Gaza by Alexander the Great, 332BC. Date: 332BC

Frenchwoman with returning soldier

Loading Mechanism Parts
Components of the loading mechanisms of 18th century rifles & pistols. Date: Circa 1760

Roman Knives & Axes
Censers and assorted weapons from the Roman era : daggers, knives and axes. Date: ANCIENT ROME

Pistols & Rifles 18th C
Rifles & pistols from the 18th century : details of loading mechanisms. Date: Circa 1760

American Natives / De Bry
Native Americans as described by travellers, with a bow for hunting, a canoe for fishing and a basket for gathering Date: 16th century

Typical fortifications of a castle

Bronze age courtship, Aldin
A bronze aged warrior of Denmark with spear and shield courts a rather shy looking woman Date: circa 3000 BC

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